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#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } While we were in Wichita our lovely colleagues at ESSDACK arranged for us to stay in this beautiful hotel in the Old Town [...] It seems that for the past 18 months we have spent a lot of time saying goodbye-today we watched as our office was demolished. I remember how excited we were when we found the building, and how excited we were when we loved in. We loved the view from the 7th floor, looking over the [...]
Staff from CORE Education, along with another 20 Kiwis and over 70 Aussies have been in Belfast, Northern Ireland for the past week to attend the 15th International Conference on Thinking, held at Queen's University. I am pleased to announce that after a lot of hard work, CORE Education has been awarded the [...] Back in the office today- but the spring cleaning bug is contagious and Steve, Tash and Emma (with a bit of help from Thomas) have been sorting through old files and making use of the new office space we have expanded into to reorder our filing. The place is a hive of activity- great opportunity [...] Here’s a thought – give yourself time to pull together your application for the CORE Education Travel Scholarship – it’s been set up to encourage and celebrate a teacher’s or leader’s thought leadership in education and the prize is up to $5,000 towards travel, accommodation, event registration & expenses for a teacher to attend an [...] Colleague David directed us to this book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by author Daniel Pink, which looks at how staff can be motivated to produce their best work. As Pink discusses in the book, humans are biologically wired to specific factors that can help them be more productive: autonomy, mastery and [...] On the second day of the iCTLT conference, the New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore, His Excellency Martin Harvey, hosted a reception for the New Zealand delegation and key educational leaders from Singapore. Held at the High Commissioner’s Queen Astrid Drive residence, the reception provided opportunity for representatives from the Singapore Ministry of [...] Tuesday morning we had the pleasure of visiting Innova School, a modern primary school to the north of the island of Singapore. Innova School are taking part in our Singapore-NZ Connect project, which is linking them with Kahutara School in rural Waiarapa. At the school we met with Principal Mr. Michel [...] Coming up on March 26th at Te Papa is a one-day “EDtalks Symposium – Leading Minds, Creating Futures”. This symposium features sixteen 20 minute presentations focusing on “current trends in learning enabled through the smart use of technologies, and the related interface between education and business”. Thought Leaders can ignite imaginations, stimulate [...] As part of the New Zealand contribution to the Singapore conference CORE Education are also taking part in a virtual conference which runs alongside the iCTLT event. The New Zealand Teaching and Learning Expo 2010 is part of the The Virtual Events Centre, and allows companies either virtually from New Zealand, or attending in [...] Jedd, Vince and I arrived last night into Singapore to attend and present at the International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (iCTLT). We off out today to visit Innova School to set up the link which will see them connect (hopefully) with Kahutara School in the Waiarapa. Follow the project on CORE Education’s [...] Back in the office this week after a great 3 days with our CORE whanau at Mt Vernon Lodge. Reminded me once again what awesome staff that we have and what a very special company I work for. (Ex) colleague Greg alerted me to the latest ranking of New Zealand blogs compiled by Ken Perrott (aka Open Parachute). It places CORE’s Director of eLearning Derek Wenmoth at 29th, and ex ICTPD Facilitator Greg Carroll at 63rd. It also has other NZ educators and friends of CORE in the top 100 including Allanah KIng [...] |
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